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his life; and they then enter into his life when he wills the things which he thinks, and thence does them.

That such is the case, any one may know from this circumstance alone, that, supposing any one to know all the laws of moral and civil life, and not to live according to them, he is not yet a moral and civil man. He may indeed speak of them more knowingly than others; nevertheless he is rejected. Similar is the case also if any one knows the ten precepts of the decalogue, so that he can even explain them and preach them intelligently, and yet "does not live according to them. (A. E. 93.)

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